Ayesha Hameed’s work explores contemporary borders and migration, critical race theory, Walter Benjamin, and visual cultures of the Black Atlantic. Her work has been performed or exhibited at ICA London (2015), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2014), at The Chimurenga Library at the Showroom, London (2015), Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities, Oxford (2015), Edinburgh College of Art (2015), Kunstraum Niederoesterreich Vienna (2015), Pavillion, Leeds in 2015, Homeworks Space Program, Beirut (2016), the Bartlett School of Architecture (2016), Mosaic Rooms (2017) and RAW Material Company (2017).

Her publications include Futures and Fictions (co-edited with Simon O’Sullivan and Henriette Gunkel Repeater 2017), Visual Cultures as Time Travel (with Henriette Gunkel Sternberg, forthcoming 2018); and contributions to Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth (Sternberg Press 2014), We Travelled The Spaceways (Duke University Press forthcoming 2018), Unsound/Undead (Forthcoming 2018).

Academic qualifications

PhD Social and Political Thought, York University, Canada. (December 2008)

BA Honours in Sociology with First Class Honours, University of Alberta, Canada. (1997)

Teaching

Current: BASpace and TimeLandscape and Power (20 week module)

Forthcoming: MAOcean as Archive (2018-19 onwards)

Previous:Link Seminar (Core course BA Fine Art and History of Art) Co-convenorLandscape and Power: Between Land and Sea Landscape and Power: From Stars to SkyConflicts and Negotiations (MA Research Architecture)Sites of Memory (BA)Introduction to Art History (Core Course BA Fine Art and History of Art/BA History of Art) Convenor

1. Black Atlantis is a multi-part experimental lecture performance that combines sound and moving image. It looks at possible afterlives of the Black Atlantic: in contemporary Mediterranean migration, through Afrofuturistic dancefloors and soundsystems, and in outer space.

Part 1 “Black Atlantis: Bodies and Storms” performed at:ICA London (2015)Institute of Historical Research, University of London. (2015)Edinburgh College of Art (2015)The Chimurenga Library, The Showroom, London (2015)Goldsmiths MFA Lecture Series (2016)Club Transmediale Berlin (2017)Raw Material Company, Dakar (2017)

Part 2 “Black Atlantis: Agitations and Adaptations” performed at:Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities, Oxford (2015)no.w.here, London (2015)

Part 3 “Black Atlantis: The End of Eating Everything” (with Tom Hirst) performed at:

Keynote Society for Artistic Research University of Plymouth (2018)Royal Academy, London (2018)

2 “A Rough History of the Destruction of Fingerprints” is multi-media project that explores the Jungle, the migrant campsite in Calais and the use of biometric databanks to track the entry of migrants.